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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...think is most influential for me personally in exploring, understanding climate change and the environment is actually Blue Peter. So when I was young, in the nineties, they were always doing things about global warming, the greenhouse effect, even things like light pollution, and as a child that was a window into the reality of that. I think people can try and cotton...
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Video 30 mins
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...think of Yugoslavia, for example, a state that no longer exists, having been broken up in recent years into a number of new states – Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, FYR Macedonia and Kosovo). But, how is this quality of permanence and continuity created? Sharma and Gupta (2006) argue that the everyday bureaucratic practices and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
They can cage a child, but they can't frame the agenda
Society, Politics & Law

They can cage a child, but they can't frame the agenda

...thinking about an important lesson from sociology for following politics in 2018: we’re not powerless in the face of “fake news.” Political sociologists talk a lot about framing—the way movements and leaders select different interpretations of an issue to define and promote their position. Frames are powerful interpretive tools, and sociologists have shown how...
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Article 5 mins
Open Pathways
Education & Development

Open Pathways

...thinking about getting back into learning...[Image of Open Pathways guide showing someone on their phone drinking coffee in a café. ] Click on the image above to view PDF Open Pathways can get you started on your learning journey, helping you navigate your way through OpenLearn to find something that interests you, while building your confidence learning online. Where...
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Activity 1 hr
"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?
Languages

"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?

...think they had a rough time. There is nothing inherent in the expression ‘went through’ that would explain this. But through corpus linguistic analyses we know that ‘went through’ is most frequently used to describe challenging, painful and difficult experiences. This usage has coloured its meaning. In a similar way, when words like ‘depressed’ are used...
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Article 5 mins
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...think about taking other courses...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type questions you usually only get...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...think we consider that the data in Figure 1 show prevalence rates and not simply prevalence as defined in the paragraph above? Because they show the number of people who have emotional disorders, expressed as a rate per 100 (i.e. a percentage) of the population. Prevalence would just tell us the total number of people with emotional disorders in the population. The burden...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...thinking about how alcoholic beverages are produced, how different products are manufactured and analysed. The effects on the body will be explored, both in terms of consuming alcohol and how they smell and taste. The history of alcohol manufacture will be explored and you will have the chance to make your own drinks, through an optional home-brew experiment. All these...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs